Facade manager

Company: Sir Robert McAlpine
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Location: London
Job Description:

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We are looking for an experienced Façade Package Manager for an immediate start on one of our major projects in Central London. The successful candidate will join a live project to directly manage and complete the remaining manufacture and design of the façade. They will lead a high-performing team of three experienced façade managers already in position, overseeing the team, including the installation phase.

The Façade Manager role

This role involves managing the complete façade package on site, including design, approvals, manufacture, planning, coordination, and installation until Practical Completion, including O&M Manual creation. We need a highly experienced individual as the project has a complicated and large-scale façade, requiring coordination with the Client’s team, running an SRM façade team, and managing a complex supply chain at the highest level for all stages – from design through to installation.

You should have extensive experience in managing façades and delivery teams and a good understanding of design, performance testing, manufacture, and installation. Based on site in Central London, you will work on a large Design & Build project as a Principal Contractor, liaising with the SRM, commercial team, technical design, design and manufacture, safety, quality, programme, and installation teams, and maintain a close working relationship with the Client’s team throughout the process. You will oversee a tier one façade Trade Contractor for the duration of the project and report to the project’s Director, with a dotted line to our Director of Façade Engineering.

Your profile

You’ll be responsible for leading regular design meetings and coordinating the design team, checking drawing and managing the submittal/approval process, keeping records, coordinating interfaces with other trades, undertaking compliance checks throughout the manufacture period, witnessing any remaining performance testing, helping to plan and coordinate the logistical and installation strategy, planning installation works on site, safety on site, quality on site, delivery of the project up to Practical Completion.

Technical experience of preferred would include;

  • Curtain wall, shop fronts and podium facades – Stick systems in steel and aluminium, including plant on profiles
  • Curtain wall – Unitised systems
  • Cladding/rainscreen systems
  • Punched windows and opening window, door, and louvre systems
  • Wintergarden facades – including steel/glass and timber cladding atrium roof systems
  • Commercial office façade systems and their principles
  • Working with a complex pallet of different materials with demanding aesthetical and performance driven criteria
  • Working with tier 1 façade contractors, design teams and Clients
  • Working on large scale projects with large construction teams
  • Track record of successful delivery of large scale façade projects from design to completion
  • Track record of successfully managing façade management teams

Rewards

We’re ready to invest in you and your future, and offer wide-ranging, performance-related progression opportunities. Our competitive rewards packages feature flexible benefits to fit your lifestyle and priorities.

We’d love you to join us in proudly building Britain’s future heritage. Apply online now.

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Posted: March 31st, 2025